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The title and advertising were misleading as well. The titular bridesmaids disappear from the movie for like an hour while we spend time with Kristen Wiig’s character being a disaster.
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Bridesmaids has a lot of the scientifically proven unfunniest people on the planet: rich white liberal women
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Armacham posted:I think the humor just doesn't stand up to repeated viewings and the shock value is lost now all these years later. Ah well that's understandable. Okay medical dramas like Gray's Anatomy are fluff poo poo, but mom is watching New Amsterdam, and motherfuck IIMM: the loving hospital therapist has a new case where a couple together for almost a decade, engaged to be married, finds out that they are half siblings. And the therapist never once says the woman has valid loving reasons for being squicked out, moving out, and not wanting to marry her brother. The man, however, well his feelfeels are hurt and he can't imagine life without her, so the therapist has them read their wedding vows to prove they love each other? Like what the gently caress therapist would be down for sibling incest? But he assures them they will be fine and look, how closely related humans all over are to other humans! Like we're all 99% the same DNA or some bullshit that seems more like trying to okay loving a bonobo because humans are related to them. The episode also has a bunch of stuff about the opioid crisis but all I can think of is the incest couple, and the therapist trying to not judge but still keep them together because the dude looooooves her so much. And the episode ends with the woman being kinda run over by both men and apparently going to marry him still.
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A bit in Bridesmaids that I liked that Melissa McCarthy's character getting the protagonist out of her funk, the "Fight for your lovely life" scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7WTzrCcwMI. I just generally liked her in that movie because she exuded confidence and it made her a lot of fun to watch. Maya Rudolph's character was a pretty bad friend though IMO and the protagonist herself wasn't very fun to watch .
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Cowslips Warren posted:Ah well that's understandable. Fwiw, I saw Bridesmaids like a year or two after it came out and while I wouldn't be as vitriolic as you were, it was a bad movie then and I was baffled by why it was so popular. It was one of the big reasons why I knew Ghostbusters 2016 would be bad. Paul Feig sucks and ad-libbed comedies get worse every decade that passes since they were invented.
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Armacham posted:I think the humor just doesn't stand up to repeated viewings and the shock value is lost now all these years later. exactly this re 95% of alll comedies in history nota bene i have not watched that movie but the only comedies i do watcb are the good ones
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Hating and loathing Paul Feig and his works is completely rational.
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Friend posted:Fwiw, I saw Bridesmaids like a year or two after it came out and while I wouldn't be as vitriolic as you were, it was a bad movie then and I was baffled by why it was so popular. It was one of the big reasons why I knew Ghostbusters 2016 would be bad. Paul Feig sucks and ad-libbed comedies get worse every decade that passes since they were invented. I forget if I mentioned it before, but a while back I watched The Watch, and there were some shots where they were so obviously ad-libbing through different takes and picking the "best" line. As in, a scene would cut to a character saying a random line, then cut back to the scene in progress. The whole appeal of ad-libbing and improv is the spontaneity and how the other players respond to it! Not just that he's spouting some nonsense off the top of his head!
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Comedy peaked with the Naked Gun movies. Leslie Nielsen you are missed.
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I just saw the trailer for The Meg 2 like literally 20 seconds ago and I had to race to this thread to say it looks like total loving garbage and I’m gonna love every minute of it, much like you with my posting.
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The Black Stones posted:Comedy peaked with the Naked Gun movies. Leslie Nielsen you are missed. I'm genuinely curious how much of Abrams/Zucker films are ad-libbed. I assuming the script is pretty tight and relies on the actors being 100% committed to being deadpan when they deliver lines.
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I liked Bridesmaids but haven’t seen it since it came out. The one mom talking about the horrors of having pubescent sons and saying “I cracked a blanket in half yesterday” has always stuck with me.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm genuinely curious how much of Abrams/Zucker films are ad-libbed. I assuming the script is pretty tight and relies on the actors being 100% committed to being deadpan when they deliver lines. they were tightly scripted, recording on actual film is/was hella expensive anyway the av club did an oral history on airplane (not on a plane, but https://www.avclub.com/surely-you-can-t-be-serious-an-oral-history-of-airplan-1798279218
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oldpainless posted:Bridesmaids has a lot of the scientifically proven unfunniest people on the planet: rich white liberal women You can go ahead and remove liberal from this, since there aren't any funny rich white conservative women either.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay medical dramas like Gray's Anatomy are fluff poo poo, but mom is watching New Amsterdam, There was a new New Amsterdam? /e: 2008, about a modern homicide detective born in 1607 stringless has a new favorite as of 08:53 on Aug 5, 2023 |
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Man, how about shows that got canceled too early from that time. John Doe, Century City, Eyes
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FFT posted:Wasn't New Amsterdam a short-lived show about a dude that didn't age still hanging out in modern New York? Probably a police-adjacent serial? No, that was New Old New York
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We watched The Golden Child last night and whoever was doing the special effects for Spawn shoulda used the 1980s tools for their devil. Also fun fact, the devil in Spawn was voiced by the same dude that voiced 'The Thing' in Golden Child (Frank Welker). Also Claw from Inspector Gadget!
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FFT posted:Man, how about shows that got canceled too early from that time. John Doe, Century City, Eyes Day Break. 
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ynohtna posted:Day Break. Jericho
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Humphreys posted:Jericho 
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Humphreys posted:We watched The Golden Child last night and whoever was doing the special effects for Spawn shoulda used the 1980s tools for their devil. Also fun fact, the devil in Spawn was voiced by the same dude that voiced 'The Thing' in Golden Child (Frank Welker). Also Claw from Inspector Gadget! Frank Welker has been Fred from Scooby-Doo forever, and also both Megatron and Optimus Prime.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Frank Welker has been Fred from Scooby-Doo forever, and also both Megatron and Optimus Prime. He's also literally every animal sound you've ever heard in anything ever. Except for the really gross ones, those are always Fred Tatasciore.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay medical dramas like Gray's Anatomy are fluff poo poo, but mom is watching New Amsterdam, and motherfuck IIMM: the loving hospital therapist has a new case where a couple together for almost a decade, engaged to be married, finds out that they are half siblings. And the therapist never once says the woman has valid loving reasons for being squicked out, moving out, and not wanting to marry her brother. The man, however, well his feelfeels are hurt and he can't imagine life without her, so the therapist has them read their wedding vows to prove they love each other? It seems pretty obvious: 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Frank Welker has been Fred from Scooby-Doo forever, and also both Megatron and Optimus Prime. I think Peter Cullen would like a word.
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Fall Dog posted:I think Peter Cullen would like a word. Frank Welker does voice two characters though, it’s just Megatron and Soundwave.
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Peter walks in on Frank practicing his Optimus Prime and he's just like "Dude, I'm not dead yet. rear end in a top hat."
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BioEnchanted posted:Peter walks in on Frank practicing his Optimus Prime and he's just like "Dude, I'm not dead yet. rear end in a top hat." "Mercy, Peter!" "You ask for mercy, frank? I thought you were made of stronger stuff."
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I was watching the Transformers episode of The Toys That Made Us and they had Peter Culling on it, and the way they mention Frank Welker made it sound like he had passed away. I was pleasantly surprised to find out he was still alive.
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Yeah, Welker’s still around and working, just finally slowing down.
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ynohtna posted:Day Break. I wasn't sure if you meant Day Break, the time loop thriller starring Taye Diggs, or Daybreak, the quirky zombie post-apocalyptic show, but yeah. At least the former did get all their episodes aired eventually (and if I remember right was just a single-season story anyway), but it's a shame the latter didn't get more. Edit: Oh, yeah 'from that time' is deffo Taye Diggs. Yeah, it was cancelled but it's not like you can't watch the whole thing.
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Gnome de plume posted:It seems pretty obvious:  its a universal
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Morpheus posted:I wasn't sure if you meant Day Break, the time loop thriller starring Taye Diggs, or Daybreak, the quirky zombie post-apocalyptic show, but yeah. At least the former did get all their episodes aired eventually (and if I remember right was just a single-season story anyway), but it's a shame the latter didn't get more. Zombie Daybreak was divisive, but I thought it was great as well. The half-zombified teacher was a genuinely cool character, and the way that the show would switch both viewpoint character and storytelling style between episodes was a neat effect. Too bad most people didn't appreciate what they were going for. Also, that cover of "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" was just fantastic.
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Frank Welker has 3 styles, nibbler from futurama's animal noises, nibbler from futurama's melodramatic speaking voice, and the cave of wonders from Aladdin.
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Humphreys posted:We watched The Golden Child last night and whoever was doing the special effects for Spawn shoulda used the 1980s tools for their devil. Also fun fact, the devil in Spawn was voiced by the same dude that voiced 'The Thing' in Golden Child (Frank Welker). Also Claw from Inspector Gadget! When I heard Dr. Claw's voice coming from Malebolgia I cracked up in the theater. Yes, I saw Spawn in the theater. Soundtrack still slaps too. 
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Android Apocalypse posted:Yes, I saw Spawn in the theater. Fucken oath it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQRO4fXOKk
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Heh now I'm listening to the Spawn soundtrack and this song is the perfect fit for a morning run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCFmE3SouAw
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Panfilo posted:. I'm not super familiar with the source material so I'm not sure whether John Leguizamo being zany hell clown was good or bad. It's very accurate, but also still bad
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Crowetron posted:It's very accurate, but also still bad What the Violator is the best part! For whatever that's worth.
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